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Definition

Major soil group:

08 ground-water gley soils

Seasonally waterlogged soils affected by a shallow fluctuating groundwater-table. They are developed mainly within or over permeable material and have prominently mottled or greyish coloured horizons within 40 cm depth Most occupy low-lying or depressional sites.

Soil Group:

7 humic gley soils

Non-alluvial loamy or clayey with humose or peaty topsoil. Intermediate between cambic and argillic gley soils and lowland peat soils.

Soil Subgroup:

1 typical humic gley soils

(with non-calcareous subsoil lacking significant clay enrichment)

Soil Series:

sulphuric clayey material passing to clay or soft mudstone

Brief Profile Description

Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 0

Representative Profiles: 0

Auger Bores: 6

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